John Standish Fforde (16 November 1921 – 10 April 2000) was a British

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

who was active in the

Bank of England The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. Established in 1694 to act as the English Government's banker, and still one of the bankers for the Government of ...

between 1957 and 1984. As

Chief Cashier The Chief Cashier of the Bank of England is the person responsible for issuing banknotes at the Bank of England and is the director of the divisions which provide the Bank of England's banking infrastructure. This person is known to the general ...

between 1966 and 1970, his signature appeared on British Bank Notes. After retirement he became the Bank of England's official Historian, and wrote ''The Bank of England And Public Policy'', which covered the years 1941 to 1958. In 1951 John Fforde married Marya Retinger, the daughter of Austro-Hungarian (later, Polish) political adviser

Joseph Retinger Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...

, and a granddaughter of journalist

E. D. Morel Edmund Dene Morel (born Georges Edmond Pierre Achille Morel Deville; 10 July 1873 – 12 November 1924) was a French-born British journalist, author, pacifist and politician. As a young official at the shipping company Elder Dempster, Morel ob ...

. They have three sons and one daughter, including novelist

Jasper Fforde Jasper Fforde (born 11 January 1961) is an English novelist, whose first novel, ''The Eyre Affair'', was published in 2001. He is known mainly for his ''Thursday Next'' novels, but has published two books in the loosely connected ''The Big Over ...

. Fforde's work ''Bank of England's History: The Bank of England And Public Policy (1941–1958)'' was published in 1992.

Posts held

*Prime Minister's Statistical Branch 1951–53 *Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford 1953–56 *Staff, Bank of England 1957–84 *Deputy Chief, Central Banking Information Department 1959–64 *Adviser to the Governors 1964–66, 1982–84 *Chief Cashier 1966–70 *Executive Director (Home Finance) 1970–82 *Official historian to the Bank of England, 1984–92

Publications

*''The Federal Reserve System, 1945–49'' (1953) *''The Bank of England and Public Policy 1941–1958'' (1992)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fforde, John Standish 2000 deaths 1921 births People educated at Rossall School Chief Cashiers of the Bank of England 20th-century British economists Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Fellows of Nuffield College, Oxford People from Dorset 20th-century English businesspeople